| Edition 2018 | 13 April 2018 – Agenda |
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Friday, 13 April 2018, Aula Magna, IE Business School
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:20 Opening remarks
Iñigo Moré, Remesas.org, Organiser of the Payments Drift Forum in Spain
Juan José Güemes, Chairman of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, IE Business School
Dr. Jakub Górka, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Initiator of the Payments Drift Forum
Dr. Julio de Castro, Dean of the PhD School and Chair for Entrepreneurship, IE Business School
9:20 – 9:45 Keynote address
Joaquín Almunia, Chairman of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), former Vice-President of the European Commission
9:45 – 11:30 Session I: New technologies versus cash
Digital technologies offer new possibilities for banks, central banks and final users. This panel will review Distributed Ledger Technology as well as digital currencies.
Moderation: Dr. Julio de Castro, Dean of the PhD School and Chair for Entrepreneurship, IE Business School
From TARGET to blockchain
Dieter Becker, European Central Bank, former project manager TARGET
Managing decentralized networks
Prof. Dr. Samer Hassan, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Is cash still relevant?
Prof. Dr. Malte Krueger, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00 Session II: New standards and regulations
The arrival of new technologies has fostered changes in standards bringing new services that are faster and offer new possibilities both for the supply and the demand sides of the market (PSD2, open APIs, the new RTS on SCA and CSC, etc.).
Moderation: Dr. Luis Maldonado, IE Finance Professor
The state of play of European standards and regulations
Philippe Pellé, Deputy Head of Retail Financial Services and Payments Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission
New regulation and the need for coordination
José Manuel Marques, Head of Financial Innovation Division, Banco de España
Instant payments: cornerstone to close the electronic loop
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bott, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern
SNR-K1: an environment for land registration using blockchain technolgies for Latinamerica
Joaquín López Lérida, CEO Kolokium
Discussants
Santiago Fernández de Lis, Head of Financial Systems and Regulation, BBVA, & member of the
High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech, IMF
Alejandra Kindelán, Senior Vice-President and Head of Research and Public Policy, Grupo Santander
14:00 – 15:00 Networking lunch, Olive Trees Patio – Serrano 105
15:00 – 16:30 Session III: FinTech as a tool for inclusion and digital technologies Rooms S001-S002 – Serrano 105
Legislative powers are pushing for a major change in regulations regarding payments and FinTech. What is to be expected from this side?
Digital technologies offer new possibilities for suppliers to access markets proposing new products and services.
Moderation: Dr. Luis Garicano, Head of the Centre for the Digital Economy, IE Finance Professor
How to get accounts for everybody
Jürgen Klute, Rapporteur of the Payment Accounts Directive, former member of the European Parliament
Fintech as a tool of inclusion. Ria Financial global activities
Sebastián Plubins, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East, Africa & South Asia, Ria Financial
Decentralizing grant giving
Alex Shkor, CEO and Blockchain Architect – DEIP
Bnext FinTech business expansion
Alfonso Sainz de Baranda, Chief Growth Officer, Bnext
16:30 – 17:00 Final speech on FinTech environment and new players
Jose María Roldán, Chairman of the Asociación Española de Banca, former Regulation Director BdE
Open discussion
17:00 – 17:10 Closing remarks: The future of money
Juan José Güemes, Chairman of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, IE Business School
Dr. Jakub Górka, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Organiser of the PDF 2019 in Poland